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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.

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January 29, 2006

"A little mud hole and two mosquitoes"

Category: Anti-evolution

South Carolina is currently undergoing a dalliance with ID. WIS10, a TV station in Columbia, ran an interview with the SC Governor, Mark Sanford. Here is a choice portion wherein Sanford demonstrates that science classes were wasted on him:Q: What...

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I admit it ... I teach intelligent design

Category: The Life Academic

I just don't get it. Over at Uncommon Descent, Dembski posts on a course in the philosophy of biology at the University of Bern (Switzerland) that includes a single lecture (of ten) that discusses ID, and commentators are acting like...

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The Flew Maneuver

Category: Anti-evolution

Once again, ID supporters are being a little economical with the truth. Over at Uncommon Descent, Dembski posts an op-ed by Stephen Meyer in the Daily Telegraph (28/1/06). Meyer sets the scene with: In 2004, the distinguished philosopher Antony Flew...

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First real week of teaching

Category: The Life Academic

Last week was the first real week of teaching in that it was the first week when we had content-driven classes. So Tuesday saw me walking into class for a three-hour seminar on Galileo (to be repeated again on Thursday)....

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Yet another poll

Category: Anti-evolution

Yet another poll, or rather this time a nascent one being run by the boyos at TelicThoughts who mailed myself and more than a few other science bloggers to see what our answer to the question "On which points are...

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Perils of plagiarism at an ex-party school

Category: The Life Academic

Over at Adventures in Ethics and Science, Janet has a nice post on the riff she gave to students this semester on plagiarism. I have to say, I too take plagiarism personally in that I cant imagine the students think...

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January 28, 2006

Wes Elsberry at Kos

Category: Anti-evolution

Over at DailyKOS, Wes Elsberry (of NCSE) gets interviewed. Wes graciously gives props to Ed Brayton, Troy Britain, Reed Cartwright, Mike Dunford, Pim van Meurs, and myself (among many many others) for our help on the Dover case, but frankly...

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The state of science literacy

Category: Anti-evolution

If only to contextualize the Harris Poll I mention below, it is worth pointing out that science literacy in this country is fairly appaling. Witness the bi-annual NSF Science & Engineering Indicators (2004), which found that forty percent believe that...

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More on polls

Category: Anti-evolution

Over at Uncommon Descent, both Dembski and Dave Springer are highlighting this Harris poll from July of last year (you got to hand it to the ID supporters, they keep up with the literature). Dembski merely makes a number of...

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January 27, 2006

Some thing you can do

Category: Biology

Do you agree that "[o]ne of the great strengths of the Endangered Species Act is its foundation in sound scientific principles and its reliance on the best available science"?  As this letter notes, "[u]nfortunately, recent legislative proposals would critically weaken...

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